When I first saw it, I thought of fusing the words ursine and swine along with their meanings.
It also follows the rules of the Washington Post Style Invitational (week 278) to create a new word from an existing one by a) adding, b) removing, or c) changing exactly one letter; e.g., glibido, bother-in-law, foreploy,...
ursine. adj, Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears.
swine. n, plural form of pig.
So a good case could be made for it being a plural noun (bearish pigs) if one is following strict etymological derivation. But the fun with these new lexical creations is that we get to give them meaning derived from but not dependent on the parent words.
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Date: 2009-01-17 06:38 am (UTC)Therefore: An urswine is a prototypical pig.
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Date: 2009-01-17 07:08 am (UTC)When I first saw it, I thought of fusing the words ursine and swine along with their meanings.
It also follows the rules of the Washington Post Style Invitational (week 278) to create a new word from an existing one by a) adding, b) removing, or c) changing exactly one letter; e.g., glibido, bother-in-law, foreploy,...
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Date: 2009-01-18 12:51 am (UTC)ursine. adj, Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears.
swine. n, plural form of pig.
So a good case could be made for it being a plural noun (bearish pigs) if one is following strict etymological derivation. But the fun with these new lexical creations is that we get to give them meaning derived from but not dependent on the parent words.